Named on February 16 as the person responsible for the federal security intervention in Rio de Janeiro, Army General Walter Braga Netto held a meeting on Tuesday with journalists to explain his plan for restoring normalcy to Brazil’s most famous city. The event turned out to be anything but a thorough explanation as to how the Armed Forces will successfully reclaim territories currently controlled by organized crime.
Over the course of a 25-minute presentation, Braga Netto displayed some...